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  • Dictionary of Cape Breton English

    Biff and whiff, baker’s fog and lu’sknikn, pie social and milling frolic – these are just a few examples of the distinctive language of Cape Breton Island, where a puck is a forceful blow and a Cape Breton pork pie is filled with dates, not pork.The first regional dictionary devoted to the island’s linguistic and cultural history, the Dictionary of Cape Breton English is a fascinating record of ... Read more

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  • Survival

    Series series FPQ
    Toronto in the twenty-first century: At night, a beacon on a lonely ancient lake, a drainage pond from the last ice age. In the daytime, a bulwark of glass, glinting in the radiant sun. Joe, Mary, and her cat, Sam, sit in a lakeside condo, trapped by a crazed, mysterious sniper. What has become of their lives? What has become of their city? What has become of their century? As the situation begins ... Read more

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  • Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book

    An Anatomy of a Book Burning

    by Lawrence Hill ...
    Series series Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series
    Censorship and book burning are still present in our lives. Lawrence Hill shares his experiences of how ignorance and the fear of ideas led a group in the Netherlands to burn the cover of his widely successful novel, The Book of Negroes, in 2011. Why do books continue to ignite such strong reactions in people in the age of the Internet? Is banning, censoring, or controlling book distribution ever ... Read more

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  • Memory Serves

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    Series Book 13 - Writer as Critic
    Memory Serves gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for publication, the lectures hold the features and style of oratory intrinsic to the Salish people in general and the Sto: lo in particular. From her Coast Salish perspective and with great eloquence, Maracle shares her knowledge of Sto: lo history, memory, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature

    Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature

    by Herb Wyile ...
    Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature is a study of the work of over twenty contemporary Atlantic-Canadian writers that counters the widespread impression of Atlantic Canada as a quaint and backward place. By examining their treatment of work, culture, and history, author Herb Wyile highlights how these writers resist the image of Atlantic Canadians ... Read more

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  • Scandalous Bodies

    Diasporic Literature in English Canada

    Series series TransCanada
    Scandalous Bodies is an impassioned scholarly study both of literature by diasporic writers and of the contexts within which it is produced. It explores topics ranging from the Canadian government’s multiculturalism policy to media representations of so-called minority groups, from the relationship between realist fiction and history to postmodern constructions of ethnicity, from the multicultural ... Read more

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  • The L.M. Montgomery Reader

    Volume Three: A Legacy in Review

    Now available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada’s most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years since her death.Volume Three: A Legacy in Review examines a long overlooked portion of Montgomery’s critical reception: reviews of her books. Although Montgomery downplayed the impact that ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass

    L.M. Montgomery's Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance

    When it originally appeared, Elizabeth Rollins Epperly’s The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass was one of the first challenges to the idea that L.M. Montgomery’s books were unworthy of serious study. Examining all of Montgomery’s fiction, Epperly argues that Montgomery was much more than a master of the romance genre and that, through her use of literary allusions, repetitions, irony, and comic inversions, ... Read more

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  • The Future of Northrop Frye: Centennial Perspectives (From the Vault: UTQ Special Collections)

    This special collection, edited by Germaine Warkentin and Linda Hutcheon, celebrates the centennial of the birth of Northrop Frye. Projecting forward instead of back, the articles in this volume look to the future of Frye’s ideas in the critical climate of the twenty-first century. The publication of Frye’s Collected Works has brought about a serious reconsideration of his criticism and how it ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The L.M. Montgomery Reader

    Volume One: A Life in Print

    Now available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada’s most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years since her death.The first volume, A Life in Print, focuses specifically on Montgomery’s role as a public celebrity and author of the resoundingly successful Anne of Green Gables (1908). The ... Read more

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  • L.M. Montgomery's Rainbow Valleys

    The Ontario Years, 1911-1942

    Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) and Anne of Green Gables will always be associated with Prince Edward Island, Montgomery's childhood home and the setting of her most famous novels. Yet, after marrying Rev. Ewan Macdonald in 1911, she lived in Ontario for three decades. There she became a mother of two sons, fulfilled the duties of a minister's wife, advocated for copyright protection and ... Read more

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